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Brooklyn Heights Blog – new and welcome addition to our blog roll

We’ve added another local blog – Brooklyn Heights Blog – to our blogroll. Welcome!

Pat McCaffrey, Construction worker, killed working on natural gas pipeline in Harriman State Park

Last Sunday’s Times, Metro section,  Sunday September 16, 2007, page 21, column 1, headlined: “Pipeline Accident Kills Worker.”  No dateline, no byline. Not showing up in the Times’ archive search on its website. From that piece, which reports that Mr. McCaffrey was killed on Saturday: The worker, identified as Pat McCaffrey, 67, of Lebanon, N.J. [...]

Brooklyn Streets Blog added to blogroll

Check out Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens, an excellent local blog.

Election Day: You can vote until 9 PM

Gotham Gazette has a last minute voter’s guide.

Mexican Oil Pipelines Attacked at six points, causing fires, evacuations

Kris Alexander at Danger Room has a short report and incisive analysis of these attacks, which PEMEX (Mexico’s oil exporting entity) claims will require hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs. PEMEX also claims – in my view, not plausibly – that it won’t cause disruptions in exports (and to United States imports). Photo by [...]

Hynes announces guilty pleas in stock fraud case

According to a press release dated today, the Brooklyn D.A.’s office has obtained guilty pleas from two defrocked brokers in Clinton Hill. This is, of course, a good thing. Not clear if any of the complainants were local. My guess is none. (This is one of the great advantages of white-collar crime: you can rip [...]


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